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 SG No. 12 of 2022

I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY

1. On 12 April 2021, the former Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, wrote to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia (the Governor-General) to recommend that the Governor-General "appoint me, as Prime Minister, to administer the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and